Editorial

This was a difficult year for Asia and Europe regions. Many martyrs were given for the sake of democracy. We, as Board of the Chamber and as journal administration, hereby condemn all organizations those execute murders by manipulating people who are unable to establish cause-and-effect relationships for themselves. We stubbornly support all scholars and researchers who strive to prepare articles in this environment. We are with you once more for the last issue of our journal in 2016. Studies on maritime safety and marine traffic issues have come into prominence in this issue. In addition, we shared our research as a technical note with our readers, regarding the performance of our journal. We have also noted some of the outstanding subjects in our region about the maritime issues. The first FSRU LNG type vessel has berthed at ETKI LNG Terminal in the western coast of Turkey in 12.12.2016. The GMC 2016 international conference organized by our chamber and Istanbul University on 24-25 October 2016 in Turkey has been successfully completed. I would like to express my gratitude to authors who sent their valuable studies for this issue, to our reviewers, to our editorial board, to our section editors, to our foreign language editors who provide quality publications by following our publication policies diligently and also to layout editors who spent great efforts in the preparation of this issue. I wish for a peaceful year for 2017.